Hey guys, I am in the sakuya section of tokyo located right [beside] the famous scramble crossing which I tried out. [it's] pretty awesome
[it's] a place that serves something called a
Miyazaki chicken now if you don't know what Miyazaki chicken is and then I feel better because I had no idea what that was either?
But my local friend said that's something I've got to try now
I've heard of Kobe beef of course so Miyazaki chicken is kind of like the Kobe beef of
chicken if that makes sense
Miyazaki is a place in sort of Japan where they raise the chicken free-range and supposedly the chickens are really healthy
They live longer than other chickens and they taste
spectacular I am at a restaurant called Kuruma where supposedly they cook this chicken very well, so let's go try [these] birds out.
I am hungry, and I'm ready to chow down on this chicken luckily they have an English menu
So I don't have to struggle with my japanese the chicken they serve at this restaurant is called Jitoko Jidori
Jitoko is a name given to a particular brand of free-range chicken
It's also called Phantom chicken because the production volume is so low and jidori is a very strict
Label given to chicken I feel like I'm about to eat chicken royalty here
And this menu is extensive there are over two dozen chicken dishes
And I really couldn't make up my mind about what to try what not to try I asked a waiter
He said everything tasted good, so yeah, I'm a trusting kind of guy
I got every one of these dishes, so we're gonna try them out
And I'm gonna tell you guys if this chicken [royalty] does taste as good as they say. Oh! Well thank you
This is [a] pre appetizer free complimentary a little sampler here. We've got chicken tofu
[what] looks like a daikon and some carrots. Try the tofu
oh
Wow, that's very chicken-y tofu, tofu
Soaked in chicken broth
There is definitely chicken broth down here. The chicken is really chewy you can definitely taste how fresh that is when you bite into the tofu
a burst of chicken broth will hit your mouth
I feel like I should have added a little bit of vinegar a little bit of spice to that because it does I do feel
like it does need some kind of acid to kind of cut down on the chicken fat a little bit and I notice on the
Table, they gave you different types of seasoning
There's the soy sauce and this is really cool
These are like looks like three little shelving units and one of them is of course chili pepper
Next one is I think is
let me
taste that
It's some kind [of] really peppery
lime seasoning and the bottom one is just salt the first dish has arrived this is
Chicken innards boiled chicken innards in Ponzu sauce this is the diaphragm it's my first time eating diaphragm
It's really good. It tastes like just really really really lean
chicken meat almost crunchy like a gizzard, but wow
That's excellent. This is the heart some people might get a little weirded out by eating heart, but I love it
That chicken I've got a good heart
I don't know why people don't like heart if you just get past the fact that it's a heart
It just really lean meat
And this is awesome because there's no gaminess at all in the ponzu sauce and the onions goes perfectly with the chicken best
chicken innard salad ever. This is the signature dish right here, and they put it like within a
Paper shield, so it doesn't splatter on you. This is what you've gotta get when you come here
It's called Jitoko Jidori sumiyaki, and it's charcoaled chicken and here
I got a combo of a soft chicken meat and firmer chicken meat
This is charbroiled over special charcoal supposedly their chefs are specially trained and they use a very specific type of charcoal to grill this
chicken They give me the dipping sauce which is Wasabi mixed with I think some sort of soy try this chicken
Supposedly the best chicken in the world
oh
God that's-
I'm sorry
Am I alive because I swear I died and went to chicken heaven
It just came off the grill. I gotta get another piece can I waste this chicken?
They are right this is the best chicken in the world in the freaking world. No chicken is better than this chicken
This is the holy Grail of chicken right here. Let me try to
Convey to you guys what I'm what I'm eating here a wave of this beautiful charcoal
just it's
Fills up all your senses, and it just kind of gives you the knockout punch of chickeny
Euphoria I just don't understand. What's happening right now, because it's that good
This is a piece of chicken skin
The aroma of this charcoal, of the way they grilled it. It's just
Intoxicating to call this a chicken flavor bomb is an understatement. Even the firmer pieces like this one right here
Two seconds in the chicken somehow gets juicier. I don't know how it's happening
I don't know where it's like hiding its juice
But as you chew the chicken gets tastier and juicier and like I said about two three seconds if that charcoal flavor
hits you in the face
wow, this is what chicken heaven tastes like it's stunning
How good this is I came to tokyo I didn't even think about chicken
I didn't think about it because I'm like who cares chicken. Oh
My God, this is done next up they char grilled chicken cartilage. This is really interesting. I love soft chicken bones
I love it when I'm eating whole chicken. Just take a bite of the chicken bone. It's nice and crunchy so here it is
That's awesome. I'll remember that flavor the rest of my life. It's got pieces of chicken meat on there shame
Beautiful chargrilled flavor and of course with that you get a nice crunch of the bones. This is so amazing. One thing
I want to do is I want to spice this up a little more so let me add some chili pepper. Oh
my God, holy
Wow, how's it check wow guys really spicy chili peppers mmm. I feel like I made the chicken better. It's just like an ultra luxurious
version of Chinese barbecue skewers that you'll find in those food stands next up
We have the chicken Tempura and look at this. It's really lightly fried lightly breaded. I don't know
What sauce this is, try this out.
I did not know it was Wasabi sauce! Don't let my response fool you
It's actually really good this let me break this open for you. Look how
Lightly breaded this is, and I just want to try this breading really quick. Oh
My God that just melts
Super light, and I can see why they give you the Wasabi sauce with this
The wasabi
Definitely counteracts any oiliness from the tempura that is so light
I feel like this is the only chicken that can actually fly the yakitori has arrived and we're gonna start off with the heart of
the Chickens literally, [oh]
Beautiful Smoky flavor this heart is actually really tender. I feel like it's cooked medium
Not cooked all the way really soft really tender great Smoky flavor next up. We have the chicken liver one of my favorites
that is definitely the
Rarest Chicken liver I've ever had in my life. Wow that is really rare?
I don't feel like I love my chicken liver that rare
I like my chicken liver pretty solid because it's very you know livery
But that's just a personal preference and finally chicken neck with leek I can't be eating all meat
So this is my vegetable intake of the day
I
That works really well. Leek is nice and crunchy beautiful
barbecue Flavor
Throughout this entire thing you cannot go wrong with any of the yakitori selections next up is one of the most popular Miyazaki dishes
Fried Miyazaki chicken and this comes with a side of vinegary tartar sauce
I love fried chicken this isn't as juicy as typical fried chicken, but got a nice
clean flavor and the dipping sauce
I really dig outside of the chicken very crunchy I do feel like the batter
The batter is a little thick I wish the batter was a little bit lighter because I do feel like there's a little too much
Breading on this dish next up deep fried chicken cartilage. Let's do this without any sauce. Just some lemon juice for now
Mmm, ah that's yummy although it's oily
Really good. I'm gonna dip this in the Wasabi sauce I have from earlier
Yo
thsy really works
if you guys ever order that dish where they bring in the Wasabi sauce keep the Wasabi sauce that will go well with a lot of
The chicken dishes here the cool thing about deep frying chicken cartilage
is that
The cartilage, it breaks down a little more and it offers a double crunch
You got the crunch from the fried batter on the outside
Then you got the crunch of the cartilage just to remember crunch is good. That's why it has a captain
I've tried a lot of Miyazaki chicken dishes today already. So now let's get to the eggs
This is tamagoyaki basically a multi-layered omelet. Look at this thing jiggle. It's beautiful. It's like a natural dancer
Oh wow. Holy crap that's a beautiful omelette. This is so
light and Airy
But somehow the egg flavor kind of pinpoint
what makes you so different than like all the other omelets that I've had I feel like the eggs are just different level of
Freshness and quality and let me a little radish in here. Oh
That omelette is spectacular
It's not seasoned much at all just a bit of salt. I never thought in my life
I would ever taste eggs, and be like yo those eggs are spectacular, but that's exactly what these eggs are I'm telling you
It's not the seasoning
What's setting this omelette apart from any other
Omelette in the world is the egg quality you can taste that you ever order so much at dinner that
That you forgot how many dishes you actually order, and you have no idea if more are coming?
I'm at a point where I'm kind of like
I'm kind of wishing it's it was stopped every time I see the waiter walk towards my direction
I feel I feel a little nervous because I'm pretty full right now. I'm a little chickened out
That's it the parade of chicken is over the age-old question
Of why did the chicken cross row has finally the answer the chicken is trying to cross the Road now?
I'm pondering that age-old question
I wasn't trying to cross the road apparently they all showed up on my plate tonight like I mentioned when I came to tokyo
Chicken was the furthest thing from my mind. I'd even consider eating any chicken dish here. I mean chicken is good
I love fried chicken. I love [Barbeque] chicken, but it wasn't something
I thought [I] will seek out in Japan, but this chicken experience has been
Enlightening to say the least especially [their] signature dish the charred grilled chicken on that special charcoal
I'll be thinking about that for ever that was by [far] the simplest
Tastiest chicken I have ever had I mean, it's just char grilled chicken
But somehow that flavor is out of this world [guys]
I have the info for this place in my description box and if you are ever in tokyo
please
Please I [implore] [you] come here and get that dish [and] once you taste it chicken would never be simple and boring ever again it
Will maybe become the love of your life that you don't get to see very often because it's all the way in tokyo [oh] also
One thing I do want to mention about this restaurant. It's beautiful the staff is really friendly
[but] this is a I think a cultural thing in Japan
Maybe is that the smoking are the smokers in the restaurant who sit right next to you like right?
next to me right now this couple dances like
[continue] to smoke and that's only thing that's kind of killing the delicious meal. I've had today
It's this constant smell of cigarette smoke, so if that's a problem [for] you
Make sure maybe to ask them to put you somewhere where people don't smoke, but that is one thing
I wish I knew before I came in here again all the [information] for this place is in my description box
Definitely, definitely come check this place out. Thank you all so much for watching see